LSNJ publishes a legal education newsletter, Looking Out for Your Legal Rights®, and a series of legal information manuals in English and in Spanish to help people understand the law and their legal rights and responsibilities. We update our information as necessary. Click here for publications from LSNJ’s Poverty Research Institute.

PUBLICATIONS

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Child Abuse and Neglect: A guide for parents involved in child abuse or neglect cases in New Jersey

Legal Services of New Jersey wrote this handbook to help parents when the Division of Child Protection and Permanency (formerly DYFS) files a court case to place their children in foster care based on claims that the parents have abused or neglected their children. This handbook will help you understand the things you must do to try to reunite with your child as soon as possible.

PLEASE NOTE: Divorce in New Jersey: A Self-Help Guide is accurate as of the date it was last updated—July 2016. LSNJ is presently working on an update to include minor changes to some for​ms. The updated edition will be available later in 2017. If you choose to download the current version, you will still be able to proceed with your divorce. You may want to check back before you file, to see whether the updates have been posted. ​

Domestic Violence: A Guide to the Legal Rights of Domestic Violence Victims in New Jersey

This handbook reviews the major provisions of New Jersey law regarding domestic violence and suggests some of the measures you can take to protect yourself from abuse, including using the Prevention of Domestic Violence Act to get a restraining order to keep the abuser away.

This manual is being revised. If you have questions about foreclosure, please apply for help online or call our statewide legal hotline
at 1-888-LSNJ-LAW (1-888-576-5529).

Looking Out For Your Legal Rights®

Looking Out For Your Legal Rights is LSNJ's community legal education newsletter. In language that is easy to understand, Looking Out gives you general information about current legal issues and how they may affect you. Part of each issue is available in a Spanish-language section, Cuáles son sus derechos legales.

Tenants' Rights in New Jersey is LSNJ's guide to landlord-tenant law for New Jersey residents. The manual includes chapters on finding a place to live, security deposits, leases, rent increases, the responsibilities of landlords and tenants, legal and illegal evictions, condo and co-op conversions, and the right to safe and decent housing.

LSNJ wrote this handbook to help parents when the Division of Child Protection and Permanency, DCP&P (formerly the Division of Youth and Family Services, DYFS) takes legal action to terminate (end) their parental rights to their children. This handbook contains information about the law and legal process that apply to you as a defendant parent being sued by DCP&P in a termination of parental rights case.

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Copyright information
Legal Services of New Jersey makes these publications available for use by low-income people and their advocates who provide not-for-profit legal help for low-income people. All of our publications are copyrighted. Permission is granted for personal use only. They may not be sold or used commercially by others.

Disclaimer
These publications provide general information about the law. They do not provide specific advice about a particular legal problem that you may have, and they are not a substitute for seeing a lawyer at times when you may need one. If in doubt as to whether you need a lawyer, talk to one.